So, here we are. THIS MOMENT.
Are you paying attention?
This is all there is. You are here as a communication channel for the Love of God, to extend that love here in the world. This is your true purpose. To inspire joy in people.
It’s gets really simple when you start thinking in this way. It’s not complicated. There is nothing to figure out. Suddenly all your former goals become meaningless.
Being in the present moment takes practice. Training your mind to be focused in the NOW is like training to be an Olympic athlete. Believe me. I know. I am the Queen of Distraction and if I can train myself to be more fully present, well then, so can you.
The past two days I’ve been staying away from the computer except for a couple of hours for work. It’s been marvelous. I’m not clicking all over the internet looking to be amused or entertained. It’s whole new thing for me.
I was thinking about how vastly different this world is from the one I grew up in, and how every child born today will grow up with televisions, iPods, cellphones and internet.
Yesterday, Greta loaned me the most amazing magazine: “Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness” (you can click the image to go their website) and there is an article in here that says the internet has become “the global brain” and that “the electronic media amplify, distort, and attenuate our senses, change our awareness, and mediate our experience.”
(sounds like a drug to me…)
This article says they have done studies that when you turn off all the distractions and get quiet, your mind releases chemicals that make you more alert and aware. Which obviously, you don’t need scientists to tell you that.
I already know that when I walk away from the computer after hours of internet, I’m drowsy and drugged. I feel tired. All I want to do is indulge in some other mind-altering distraction like watching a movie, or eating loads of carbohydrates when I’m not even hungry.
I don’t have a cell phone so I don’t have that distraction. Thankfully. I haven’t watched tv since 1986 (with the exception of Friends episodes for 10 years every Thursday night with my friend Rick) so I don’t have that distraction.
But I do have the internet, and I waste whole days just sitting in front of a computer screen. I want to begin using it only as a tool, and only for work, and only for a couple hours a day.
I think calling the internet the GLOBAL BRAIN is scarily accurate. But who wants to be connected to a global brain in that way?? Who needs to expose themselves to the sheer level of violence and meanness in movies, television and the internet.
I am starting to sound like someone’s grandmother, but it feels great.
I want to think for myself. I want a clear head. I don’t want it cluttered with junk.
Last night I turned off all the distractions, and I found a whole new energy.
It’s a great experiment, and I like it.
Facebook comments:
Funny(!) I was just thinking about this subject too this morning.
it kind of troubles me to see my children’s attitude toward computers, hahaha they just show me my behaviour. I am kind of addicted to the net as well.
But then , coming back to my kids, i can see the whole internet thing is so experimental. Information gets around quicker and quicker, within an hour all dutch students were informed this week to go on strike, and stand up for themselves instead of just living out their partents expectations
Just an example, l also see my daughter chatting away for hours with her friend who lives just down the road (!) . Then again , she stated, it is not so important that i see her physically, it is all in the mind (!)
like anything… every holy scripture, or horrible website… you can use everthing the way you want to use it, it is all available and at your fingertips…bringing us back more and more to the awareness that we are all connected, and that each of us has the choice what to do with it…it all comes down to taking full responsability
dangerous, experimental …and exciting
Love Ankie
You talking to me? Thanks. I needed to hear this!